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getting slowly known amongst farmers that the Guernsey and 

 Jersey are not at all the same animal, and that the cross with 

 the Guernsey bull on almost any breed is bound, if a heifer, to 

 be first class for dairy purposes, and if of the male sex, to make 

 a fine large beast, easily fattened. 



With regard to its increasing popularity, it is only necessary 

 to note the fact that at all the leading shows the Guernsey now 

 has classes to itself, where formerly it was put with the Jersey 

 in classes for Channel Islands cattle, and also to glance at the 

 entries ; the Guernseys are only outnumbered by the Jerseys ; 

 and generally the Channel Islands cattle outnumber all other 

 breeds combined by two to one. 



As a proof that the Guernsey is a really good dairy cow — 

 perhaps the best — I may point out that one of the largest dairy 

 companies in London, the Express, has kept for the last five or 

 six years a large herd of pure Guernseys, which they intend to 

 increase and keep pure, so satisfied are they with it as a profit- 

 able dairy cow. Such a fact needs no comment. 



Without being able to record such phenomenal milk and 

 butter yields as occasionally startle the bucolic mind when they 

 come from the other side of the Atlantic, still a few facts from 

 carefully kept records may prove interesting as demonstrating 

 the capabilities of the breed. 



In the Eoyal Guernsey Society's Herd Book appears the 

 following official test of a heifer, five months gone with second 

 calf, therefore the great flush of milk was thoroughly past : — 

 " Vesta 6th, No. 625 ; born 20th November 1881. Official test 

 dated 28th May 1885 ; gave 131b. 15|oz. of butter in one week." 



There are numbers of cows who make from 141b. to 201b. of 

 butter weekly, and this without forcing. 



Sir J. F. Lennard, of Wickham Court, Beckenham, Kent, who 

 has kept a pure herd for twenty years, occasionally importing a 

 bull from the island, has built up a herd of great excellence, 

 any of which appear, when cows, to make from 161b. to 221b. of 

 butter a week. His cows are tested two following days every 

 month, and the average struck from that. Some of his cows 

 by this test have made over 31b. of butter from one day's 

 milking. As regards quantity of milk also they, the Guernseys, 

 deservedly rank verv high. I have a herd of from twenty-five 



